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Teardown · 2026-09-23

Dr. Perry's Coffee

www.drperryscoffee.com · Goal: Sell bags of small-batch horror themed coffee, at 19.99 to 20 dollars a bag, to horror fans who land from social posts.

Its founder posted in public that the shop has not had a single sale since June and asked what would stop a customer from buying. This is the answer, read from the HTML the server sends. It will be removed on request.

01 · The five-second read

What a stranger gets

  • It sells coffee with collectible horror artwork on the bag, roasted in small batches by independent artists.
  • Three bags earn free shipping, and the collection is themed after horror films.
  • The brand voice is consistent, from "Enjoy the coffee. Collect the art." down to the catalog link called "Enter If You Dare".

What they miss

  • That the site is safe to pay on. The secure address redirects to the insecure one: https://drperryscoffee.com sends the visitor to http://www.drperryscoffee.com, and browsers mark that page as not secure. On a shop with a card field, that is the whole game.
  • That anyone has really bought. The three reviews on the page are the storefront template defaults, word for word: "The best coffee I have ever had", "I have tried many roasters, but this one stands out", "Amazing quality and fast shipping". No names, no photos, no dates. A horror fan who reads two of them knows.
  • What the coffee actually tastes like. Docs Brew, Radio Static Roast and Save Room Blend are good names, and nothing next to them says roast level, origin or tasting notes, which is what a coffee buyer compares.

02 · Fixes, ranked

  1. 01

    Serve the whole shop over https, and keep it there

    The certificate exists, the redirect throws it away. Every visitor arriving from a link lands on a page the browser calls not secure, right before being asked for a card. No amount of copy survives that.

    Change: Redirect http to https, not the reverse, and point www at the secure host. One line in the host settings, and the first objection disappears.

  2. 02

    Delete the template reviews today

    Placeholder testimonials do more damage than no testimonials: they tell a careful buyer that nothing on the page is verified. On a shop with no sales since June, they are also untrue.

    Change: Replace the block with something you own: the number of bags roasted, the artists you work with by name, or a single message from a real customer with their first name. If none exists yet, ship three bags to horror reviewers and quote them.

  3. 03

    Put tasting notes and roast level on every bag

    Coffee buyers pick on flavour and roast before they pick on theme. The art sells the second bag, the taste sells the first one.

    Change: Under each product name: origin, roast level, three flavour notes, grind options. One line each, in the HTML rather than in an image.

  4. 04

    Say the shipping rule where the price is

    "Buy 3 bags = FREE SHIPPING" sits in the hero and nowhere near the 19.99 price, so a visitor never learns what one bag costs to ship. Unknown shipping is the most common reason a cart is abandoned.

    Change: Next to each price: "Shipping 5 dollars, free from three bags". If the number varies, show the country rule.

  5. 05

    Rename the door, keep the joke inside

    "Enter If You Dare" is the only link to the catalog. It is a good line and a bad label: a stranger scanning the header does not see the word coffee or shop, and neither does a search engine.

    Change: Label it "Shop the coffee", and use "Enter if you dare" as the line above the first product row.

  6. 06

    Keep the Merch link inside the store

    The header sends people to a different shop on another domain before they have bought anything here. It splits a thin stream of visitors in two.

    Change: Move merch to the footer, or into the confirmation page after a first order.

03 · New words

Headline

  1. Option 1: Horror coffee with collectible art on every bag.
  2. Option 2: Enjoy the coffee. Collect the art.
  3. Option 3: Small-batch coffee for people who sleep with the lights on.

Subheadline

  1. Option 1: Three roasts, each with original artwork by an independent horror artist. 19.99 dollars a bag, free shipping from three.
  2. Option 2: Roasted to order, shipped in days, with a print-quality label you will want to keep.
  3. Option 3: Docs Brew, Radio Static Roast, Save Room Blend. Medium to dark, notes on every label.

Button

  1. Option 1: Shop the coffee
  2. Option 2: See the three roasts
  3. Option 3: Pick your first bag

04 · Friction I can see

  • The served HTML is 222 KB and the storefront renders from a JavaScript payload, so the reviews, the prices and most of the text only exist after the scripts run.
  • The share image is set and the title is good: "Dr. Perry’s Coffee | Horror Coffee & Collectible Art".
  • Eight products are live in the catalog, between 19.99 and 30 dollars.

Verdict

The brand is the strongest part and it is being undone by three things that cost nothing to fix: an insecure address on a page that takes payments, template reviews that read as invented, and prices with no tasting notes or shipping rule beside them. Fix the certificate first, delete the fake quotes second.

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